Bioinfomatics Research Group

Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong

Bioinformatics Research Group of Hong Kong University

This is a research group with a history of two decades. Active
faculty members include Francis Chin (group leader), Ho-Leung Chan,
Hubert Chan, Tak-Wah Lam, Hing-Fung Ting, Wai Wan Tsang and Siu-Ming
Yiu. Unlike other research groups, we do not have specially equipped
laboratories. Yet we have a group of talented and motivated graduate
students working closely with us. Our research mainly focuses on the
design and analysis of algorithms in areas like approximation
algorithms, bioinformatics, compressed data structures, computational
geometry, data streams, frequency allocation, on-line scheduling, metric
spaces, parallel and distributed computing, and statistical computing.
In the past decade, our research work has been very successful, solving
a number of interesting open problems. Our results have been published
in prestigious international journals and conferences (e.g., SIAM
Journal on Computing, JACM, Algorithmica, SODA, FOCS and STOC). Some of
these works are results of collaboration with scholars from overseas
universities (such as CMU, U of California, Northwestern, Pittsburgh,
National University of Singapore, IBM Research). Our PhD graduates have
taken up teaching posts in University of London (King’s College),
Liverpool, Leicester, National Univeristy of Singpore, Tsinghua
University (Taiwan). On the other hand, we have also contributed in some
practical projects such as building the search engine currently used by
the Hong Kong Telecom Directory Enquiry System.